Event Appendix: Something Swampy This Way Comes! (Halloween 2012)

On October 17, 2012, the Something Swampy This Way Comes! event was started, and the Haunted Terrortories (not a typo; but a bad pun :p ) location was opened.

First, you should set whether to Trick or Treat friends who visit your page by going to your own profile (click on the shield). Pick either one.

Then, click on "Friends" and visit your friends profiles, and clicking the "Trick or Treat" button. You may get a Treat, and therefore 3 Candy Corn cheese, or a Trick, and therefore 3 Ghoulgonzola cheese.

You may see a candy under your friend's picture; this is clickable, and will give you a piece of Halloween Candy! You may collect up to 10 candies per day this way.

It's also worthwhile to visit profiles of inactive friends for Cobwebs. You may collect up to 5 Cobwebs this way during the entire event.

You can go "trick or treating" on up to 10 profiles a day. Each day begins on midnight GMT. The MouseHunt Timer is useful for keeping track.

Note that the Haunted Terrortories are only open for Recruit and up. If you're still a Novice, don't despair; the special cheeses have a high attraction rate in the Meadow during the Halloween season, so feel free to use them there until you reach Recruit! What's more, they're effectively free, so you save gold buying cheese!

Note the status bar when you enter the Haunted Terrortories. This shows your progress through the three sub-locations: the Corn Field Maze, the Haunted Manor, and the Pumpkin Patch.

You need to catch mice with both special cheeses to advance to the next sub-location (this is done automatically; no travel is required). Each catch with Ghoulgonzola fills up the Mice Tricked bar, and each catch with Candy Corn fills up the Mice Treated bar.

Note that if you surpass the requirement for one side without fulfilling the other, the boxes do not fill past the next location symbol; and your cheese is wasted. For example, if you fill up the 10 "Mice Treated" boxes before the Haunted Manor symbol before filling up the 10 "Mice Tricked" boxes, any mice you continue to catch with Candy Corn cheese do not further contribute to your progress.

If you're short on special cheese, you can switch to hunting with regular cheese. Mice here occasionally drop Candy Corn or Ghoulgonzola cheese that you can continue to hunt with.

Here's a list of tips for each sub-location:

Corn Field Maze

This sub-location has indigenous mice (dressed for the occasion!), which should be able to be caught by most traps. It also features a few old and new event mice. Try using your luckiest setup to increase loot drops.

You need 10 mice tricked and 10 mice treated to advance to the next sub-location.

Haunted Manor

Tougher mice from the Shadow Clan group appear. Thus it is recommended to switch to your strongest Shadow or Arcane trap, if you have one.

If you don't have one, don't worry; all mice from the Corn Field Maze still exist, and the event mice can still be caught by physical traps.

You need an additional 20 mice tricked and 20 mice treated to advance to the next sub-location.

Pumpkin Patch

More Shadow Clan mice appear. You will also encounter event mice in greater frequency.

You need to trick 39 more mice, then catch a Trick Mouse that would be unlocked to fill the last box. You also need to treat 39 more mice, then catch a Treat Mouse that would be unlocked to fill the last box.

Trick and Treat mice are only attracted to the correct event cheese.

Once you've filled both bars, Swamp Thang Mouse would be unlocked. Catch it using either event cheese. Once you've caught it, your progress is reset and you start from the Corn Field Maze again.

It may drop the Terrifying Spider Trap, the Halloween Theme Scrap I, the Witch's Brew Skin, and/or the Halloween Scroll Case (containing a special treasure map).

The Terrifying Spider Trap is strong enough to substitute the Clockapult of Time, and gets a luck bonus in the Haunted Terrortories, and in the Seasonal Garden during the Fall.

Note that you need 29,000,000 points to arm it.

Be sure to check out the Shoppes. You can trade in the Halloween Candies and Cobwebs you collected for some interesting new trap skins and helpful supplies.

If you have a strong Arcane trap, you may want to try using Spooky Charms, available from the Charm Shoppe, as gifts, or as random drops. These will attract harder mice, including mice from the Forgotten Clan to your trap, earning you more points and gold.

The Witch's Brew Skin is a skin that customises the appearance of the Oasis Water Node Trap.

What about the Halloween Theme Scrap I? It's part of a new feature: profile themes! To use it though, you need to collect the other two pieces:

The second scrap can be found in the treasure chest you receive for completing a Halloween Map. Remember that each map has room for 5 players, so even if you can't find a map yourself, it can be worthwhile to ask around.

The third scrap can be found in the Haunted Terrortories General Store. It will cost you 5 Cobwebs. Note that you can also trade in Halloween Candies for Cobwebs here, at a rate of 30 candies for 1 cobweb.

Once you have all three pieces, craft them together to create the Halloween Theme! You can switch your theme at your profile page.

There's also a Golden Shield theme, available if you have gained access to the Lucky Golden Shield (usually by donating).